Thought I'd share a soup recipe since I was at it...the essentials
Cow heel soup
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Wash split peas...
1 onion, 2 head garlic, 5 pimento peppers, piece of pumpkin, shado beni http://caribbeanpot.com/shado-beni-explained/
Peel garlic & chop shado beni
Split peas in pressure cooker add a bundle of chopped shado beni & 1 head peeled garlic, add a bit of salt, bring water to boil first then cover pressure cooker & pressure cook for about 15 mins...don't burn...better less cooked than burned
Salt to split peas...
Split peas covered & cooking
Everything else I plan to use chopped up
Put the cow heel in a pot while the split peas is cooking & boil the cow pen out of it for about half hour
After half hour of boiling the cow pen out of the cow heel throw away water & wash the cow heel...now it's ready to pressure cook
Add the other head of garlic & some more shado beni & a bit of salt to cow heel prior to pressure cooking...cow heel is stiff & you would want to pressure cook it till it gets soft according to your likeness...I like mine really soft with the bits of white fat swirling around in the soup
Split peas done
& they change places
Add rest of stuff to the split peas in the soup pot...I like to chop the pumpkin in odd sizes so that some pieces will melt away & some remain little chunks
Boil...
Today I'm only adding potatoes...some sweet corn cob chopped is really nice...so is carrots & well whatever else you fancy...& lite flour dumplings are nice too but I don't like dumplings
When the cow heel is cooked soft enough add it to the soup pot
The must have for that rich creole flavour...it's salted butter...it would never be the same without it
Add a piece..not too much..aight add it all!!!
After the salt butter dissolves add salt to taste if needed...your veggies should be almost finished cooking in the soup pot
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